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Definition of telegraphic in English:

telegraphic

adjective

1Of or by a telegraph or telegram:

‘the telegraphic transfer of the funds’

‘All of these developments accelerated growth when coupled to the steam and telegraphic evolutions, which in their turn spawned fresh management techniques and new methods of feeding the urban masses.’

‘He said, however, that the shift in direct payments resulted in additional revenue on drafts and telegraphic transfers.’

‘Of all modern inventions connected with the transmission of telegraphic signals, the telephone, devised by Mr Alexander Graham Bell, has excited the most wide-spread interest and wonder.’

‘If the customer orders that the money be transmitted by a telegraphic transfer or by telex, it is to be assumed that he requires the transaction to be carried out on the same day.’

‘The first Morse telegraphic transmission was accomplished in 1844.’

‘I am told that many of these early military telegraphic dispatches survive in the War Department collection of the U.S. National Archives.’

‘In other words, in writing on the typewriter, she was clever enough to be able to tap her keys in a pattern that is exactly like the Morse telegraphic code.’

‘All payments under this pledge shall be made in United States Dollars by means of telegraphic transfer remittance to the mutually agreed bank account.’

‘This Release may be signed in whole or in counterparts and delivered in whole or in counterparts by facsimile or telegraphic transmission.’

‘The expansion of the press, the emergence of news agencies like Reuters, and the dramatic fall in the cost of telegraphic communication by the 1920s led to expanding communication between Fleet Street and India.’

‘Every day the transmitter sent the telegraphic signal of the letter ‘S ‘while Marconi experimented with different antenna.’’

‘He recognised its importance as a link for bringing the Empire into direct telegraphic connexion for political, commercial, and strategic purposes.’

‘A chart showing the details of the Morse code used for transmitting telegraphic messages, invented by Samuel Morse has also been displayed.’

‘Then he sent £100,000 by telegraphic transfer to Austin.’

‘While underwater telegraphic cables had been laid at the close of the previous century, this project represented the first ever privately initiated and financed transnational communications link of this size and scale.’

‘So if you tell the story of time coordination as a pure history of ideas then Poincare's references to telegraphy and telegraphic longitude remain…’

‘By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.’

‘VAT was not paid on this money, which was used to pay staff salaries, or on charges made to clients for telegraphic transfer of documents, it is claimed.’

‘The Press Association made agency news nationally available by providing a central telegraphic agency for the new provincial press.’

‘By then, Morse had been experimenting with a telegraphic device for four years.’

2(especially of speech) omitting inessential words; concise:

‘telegraphic speech’

‘My father and the other members of his foursome, when they spoke, did so in a telegraphic banter: They teased one another good-naturedly; they improvised nicknames.’

‘The speech is often called telegraphic (nouns and action verbs only) and is flat, unmelodic, and distorted.’

‘His work has the telegraphic simplicity of aboriginal craft and generic morphologies, rather than the more digressive and particularized qualities of realistically mimetic images.’

‘Messages tend to be short, even telegraphic, and may omit grammatical bridges.’

‘Nor is the book particularly well-suited to those without a solid grounding in England's economic history during the early modem period, since the text is occasionally vague and its arguments telegraphic.’

‘A number of the sermons in volume 22 demonstrate the briefer, more telegraphic sermon form that Edwards creates at this time to allow for presentations that could, when desired, be more flexible or extemporaneous.’

‘He has also added a running paraphrase to each of the poem's twenty-four sections, making explicit much that the author's telegraphic style has compressed.’

‘Also, the older children speak proficient English instead of the telegraphic dialect the Shimerdas use in the early chapters.’

‘Pearls was the telegraphic code word for bed bugs!’

‘In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.’